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To: Lane3 who wrote (10710)	2/3/2006 9:41:07 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541786

"don't know what you saw in that article. What it brought home to me was how far we are from demonstrating the connection between Mexican car exhaust and Hurricane Katrina." You are really great with your one liners.. or paragraphs.. Smiling about this one. Got your point too. (:)

To: Lane3 who wrote (10710)	2/3/2006 10:11:42 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541786

More and better research. Right now there are just believers on both sides. We need less belief and more science. I don't wish to argue this right now; just too lazy and tired of arguing it. But the connections between fossil fuel emission and global warming is pretty much a given. The Bush administration and the Republican right (well, mostly it's far right) has tried to politicize it much the way the cigarrette industry tried to do with warnings about the cancer inducing effects of their products. In this literature, the literature referred to in the WSJ article, the connection that is debated is that between global warming and the increasing intensity of hurricanes. I understand the transmission mechanism, the heating and cooling of the waters. So the debate is about its source. I don't know what you saw in that article. What it brought home to me was how far we are from demonstrating the connection between Mexican car exhaust and Hurricane Katrina. Actually, we are much closer than we were, say, three or four years ago. The question has engaged careers and egos and will engage funding at the federal level. My concern there is that as the Bush administration has politicized funding for scientific research, they may try to dictate results. That's their pattern.